Comparing John Boyne's 'The Boy In Striped Pajamas'

In the beginning, Bruno was a young boy who came from a Nazi household. Even though he didn’t quite understand everything at the time, he had dreamed of becoming a soldier just like his father. Shmuel was a young boy as well, who happened to be Jewish. Although the two came from rather different backgrounds, they both had a few things in common: They were born on the same day, they were very lonely, and they were forced to leave behind everything they had ever known. As they had gotten to know each other, they learned that they weren’t so different after all. Bruno had started to realize that he had more in common with Shmuel than he ever did with his old friends back in Berlin. Eventually, the fence between them had started to disappear as the two came together, despite any differences they ever

The Holocaust was a distressing time in history and is not a story everyone can absorb. Both the book, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas written by John Boyne and the film, Life is Beautiful, directed by Robert Benigni, are based upon the real life events of the Holocaust but with a difference. They made clever use of different techniques to dim and censor the reality of the events and interpret it in a more tolerable way. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas depicts the life of a young nine year old boy named Bruno who is the son of the Commandant of the Auschwitz

At the end of the book, Bruno snuck into the concentration camp to play with Shmuel but they got caught up in a march. This march led them into the gas chambers and then Bruno sensed something bad about to happen. Once he heard the doors click shut, Bruno said, “‘You’re my best friend, Shmuel,’ he said. ‘My best friend for life’”(Boyne 213) This quote shows how strong Bruno and Shmuel’s friendship is. Even though Shmuel was Jewish and Bruno was German and they were not supposed to like each other, their friendship kept them together. The society was supposed to separate them but they stayed together all the way until the

Bruno was very oblivious to the things that were taking place around him. Although he was oblivious to the big picture he still had a feeling that he should not communicate with Shmuel, which is why he denied knowing him. Yet he was brave enough to sneak out of the house to visit Shmuel at what he believed was a “Farm.” In reality, this

Bruno is an 8 year old boy, whose determination and courage is one of the numerous things that makes him one of the most dependable charters within the novel. Bruno is shown to be particularly vulnerable of his surroundings and what was going on throughout this time. His connection and willpower to be able to make a friend in the most unlikely area and conditions, he sees an opportunity and turns it into an improbable and prohibited friendship that has many twists and turns and uncontrolled concecuences. After meeting Shmuel a young 8 year old boy, who appears to have a matching birthday to Bruno, they form a tight and loving friendship. Shmuel is undernourished and appears to be extremely pale, bringing the readers to understand the vulnerability of the

The next day where its raining and extremely muddy Bruno went to meetup with Shmuel at the fence to go on the search for Shmuel’s father . Finally Bruno was on the opposite side of the fence , as he was sneaking around trying to blend in with other people he never saw nothing like that seeing everyone looking miserable and skinny.

Bruno likes going to meet Shmuel as much as he can and also loves bringing him food, talking and asking questions about his unfortunate situation and his seclusion behind a fence. Although Bruno does often say some silly and selfish things, Shmuel manages to contain himself out of respect. One example is when Bruno asks him why he wears pyjamas all day and Shmuel replies that are the soldiers that they took all their clothes away. Bruno then says: “My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away.” This sort of dialogue shows how naïve, ignorant and unaware were the young people like Bruno about the political situation of their time and about the segregation of Jewish people and their extermination and

He realizes that when he sees Schumel and all the hardships he has gone through and survived, he is capable of being his own person. Despite the circumstances in “the chaos that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel’s hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let it go” (Boyne 213). Bruno goes from being dependent on his father to being independent and making his own decisions based on what he believes is right. Through his experiences, he learns the importance in his life and how he should not be convinced otherwise. In conclusion, Bruno becomes condescending of an adult in terms of making decisions for

He always kept Shmuel company and listened to him just like a true friend would. Bruno would constantly try to sneak food into his pocket to give to his dear friend, every day where they would meet in their usual spot. Shmuel would gobble the food down quickly. Bruno didn’t understand why and how they were supposed to hate Jews, so he continued to ask about the other side of the fence. He didn’t quite understand what was going on on the other side of the fence, so he disguised himself in striped pajamas as a small jewish boy.

‘The boy in the striped pyjamas’ written by John Boyne and directed by Mark Herman tells the disastrous story of a young boy Bruno and his family in Nazi Germany; the family move to the countryside when his Nazi officer dad got a promotion at a concentration camp less than a mile away from their house. Bruno meets a new boy who later becomes friends in a wild friendship. Gretel, Bruno’s sister, gets influenced by a Nazi soldier and by her teacher, which makes her drastically change into a young Nazi woman. The changes progress when looking at the five shots from the film and studying mise-en-scene.

Little did he know that Shmuel was being deported and Bruno was just moved to a better house. This shows that Bruno is clueless about what is happening with the Nazis and the Jews because of his parents being Nazis and shielding him from the

Explain. (20 pts.) I think the author used Shmuel because kids normal became friend pretty quickly and bruno probably wouldn’t talk to a adult. The Adult are some time creepy and old but he would try to take advantage of bruno. Also i think that is it was a guy Bruno would have never thought about walking up to the

The evidence in the story suggests that Shmuel might have an idea what was happening, but Bruno had no idea about the why, the Jewish people and the Germans were so different. Bruno could not completely understand until the end of the story when they are going off to the gas chambers. ‘don’t worry said but to Shmuel its just a shower’ this was one of the last thing Bruno said to Shmuel in the story. Bruno had often asked his dad about the people on the other side of the fence and why they were all wearing pyjamas, but his dad would never tell him until one day he asked Lieutenant Kotler ‘all the people on the other side of that fence are Jews’ page 188. Both boys did not really understand the difference between the German and the Jews but they both thought that the adults were making a mistake separating

Shmuel is a 9 year old boy from Poland who also moved to “Out-with. Bruno is very wealthy and had 3 friend before he moved to “Out-with” When he moved to “Out-with” he has no friends so one day he goes exploring and finds Shmuel.

Bruno and Shmuel shared similar trait, evidence was portrayed throughout the stories. As commented by Bruno “….because my birthday is April the fifteenth too” implies that both Bruno and Shmuel shares the same birthday. Bruno and Shmuel was forced to leave their hometowns, to go to Auschwitz. Similarity included, feeling lonely and longing for home. Throughout the dialogue, the conversation between Bruno and Shmuel was spoken in German. Shmuel was taught German from his mother, commented by Bruno “Mama is a teacher in my school and she taught me German,’. This is comparable as Bruno was also taught to speak German from his teacher. Their personality is similar in some way as both of them really hates Auschwitz. Due to their similarities, both